Diplomats, politicians and - oh, no - press (Baltimore Sun)

[GreatAmerican]

<p>On eve of negotiations, experts view event as the Bush administration’s
last chance to stabilize the region</p>

<p>[‘Failure</a> is not an option’ – baltimoresun.com](<a href=“Failure all around – Baltimore Sun”>http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/local/annearundel/bal-te.summit25nov25,0,1783677.story)</p>

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A crush of diplomats is converging for Tuesday’s Middle East conference in Annapolis, most of them arriving from a region trembling with instability and growing extremism.</p>

<p>From Pakistan’s political turbulence to Iran’s nuclear weapons ambitions, from beheadings of police in Afghanistan to street assassinations in Gaza to airstrikes in Iraq, the level of confrontation and fear has never seemed higher in a region that has perfected the practice of suicide bombing and has already seen more than its share of conventional war…

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